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Published on December 31, 2017

The Cadillac Gage Ranger is a 4×4 armored personnel carrier (essentially an armored truck) produced by Cadillac Gage. The largest customer was the United States Air Force (where it was called the Peacekeeper, or P.K.) which at one time had over several hundred. It is also used by Luxembourg and Indonesia.

Rangers/Peacekeepers were produced in the early 1980s on a Dodge 200 or Dodge Ram pickup truck chassis. Many were subsequently sold off to local police as SWAT vehicles. A newer version called the PeaceKeeper II is produced on a Ford F-350 chassis.

Air Force Security Police personnel usually used the PeaceKeeper (or Truck, Armored, Convoy as the nomenclature plate described it) as a Fire Team vehicle. It had a crew of four: Fire Team Leader/driver, Rifleman/assistant gunner/front passenger, M-60 Gunner/left rear passenger, and Grenadier/right rear passenger (the fire team leader and the rifleman could swap positions in the vehicle). The seating in the vehicle was two up front facing the front, one directly behind the driver and one in the rear of the vehicle; both of the members in the rear faced the opposite wall.

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